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... Herodotus , both confirm and account for it ; if the accounts given of the numbers and ships of the Greeks are credible , and if their proceedings in Troas , as far as are recorded , are consonant to nature ; if their correspondence ...
... Herodotus , both confirm and account for it ; if the accounts given of the numbers and ships of the Greeks are credible , and if their proceedings in Troas , as far as are recorded , are consonant to nature ; if their correspondence ...
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... Herodotus , Thucydides , Diodorus , give it their unanimous sanction . The geographers acknowledge the places men- tioned to exist , and Strabo's whole book is a commentary on the poet . The philosophers and critics have never looked ...
... Herodotus , Thucydides , Diodorus , give it their unanimous sanction . The geographers acknowledge the places men- tioned to exist , and Strabo's whole book is a commentary on the poet . The philosophers and critics have never looked ...
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... Herodotus , having admitted the truth of the Trojan story in general , combats the proof of some Cyprian verses re- specting Helen ; and concludes a laboured illustration of Homer by reverting to his history , and saying " Ourgos μED ...
... Herodotus , having admitted the truth of the Trojan story in general , combats the proof of some Cyprian verses re- specting Helen ; and concludes a laboured illustration of Homer by reverting to his history , and saying " Ourgos μED ...
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Herodotus , after a long panegyric and illustration , should dis- miss the great Poet with a vituperative phrase ? Shall we not rather suppose that it was merely a mode of speaking , when re- turning from a digression to the subject ...
Herodotus , after a long panegyric and illustration , should dis- miss the great Poet with a vituperative phrase ? Shall we not rather suppose that it was merely a mode of speaking , when re- turning from a digression to the subject ...
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... Herodotus , Thucydides , Socrates , Ari- stophanes , Democritus , Aspasia , Hippocrates , Nicias , Euri- pides , & c . which are finely executed . 23 ART . sh Wall..e . ART . XV . Philosophy of Mineralogy . By Robert Athenian Letters . 325.
... Herodotus , Thucydides , Socrates , Ari- stophanes , Democritus , Aspasia , Hippocrates , Nicias , Euri- pides , & c . which are finely executed . 23 ART . sh Wall..e . ART . XV . Philosophy of Mineralogy . By Robert Athenian Letters . 325.
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